Categories
Climate Change Global Warming.

18 huge, billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

With a weather disaster unfolding in California and memories of December’s bone-chilling winter storms fresh in many people’s minds, NOAA released its list of the costliest disasters of 2022.
Categories
Climate Change Environment Global Warming. Renewable Energy. Sustainability

Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them – here are 4 ways to get training

Green jobs go beyond solar panel installation and wind turbine maintenance. They’re found in fields from design to economics and in many types of management.
Categories
Climate Change Environment Global Warming. Renewable Energy. Sustainability

COVID hit companies hard. Why some kept their sustainability commitments, and others didn’t

It is useful to recognise why companies either restrict or strengthen their sustainability efforts in response to a crisis.
Categories
Climate Change Global Warming.

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change

New practices aim to improve soil health, return more carbon to soil and reduce greenhouse gas losses.
Categories
Climate Change Global Warming.

Climate change can be beaten – why some scientists are hopeful

People are starting to notice the weather and climate, and to understand climate change better than ever before.
Categories
Environment

Superbugs in environment rarely transfer to humans: Study

The rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) around the globe represents a crisis on many fronts. Infections that are difficult, or impossible, to
Categories
Environment

Superbugs in the environment rarely transfer to humans

Hospitals are more risky than farms when it comes to the spread of the Klebsiella superbug.
Categories
Global Warming.

Can We Limit Global Warming To 1.5 Degrees? An Expert Explains

The World Meteorological Organization estimates global temperatures have a 50-50 chance of reaching 1.5 C of warming, at least temporarily, in the next five years. That doesn’t mean humanity can…
Categories
Climate Change Global Warming.

What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change

There’s a piece of gardening lore in my hometown which has been passed down for generations: never plant your tomatoes before Show Day, which, in
Categories
Climate Change Global Warming.

It’s time to add climate change and net-zero emissions to the RBA’s top 3 economic goals

Australia’s most important public financial institution, the Reserve Bank, runs on rules from the 1950s. For a 21st century economy, managing climate change needs to be added to its 3 key objectives.